The Electoral Commission (EC) has overseen the destruction of faulty ballot papers intended for the Ahafo and Volta Regions due to errors identified in their serialisation.
As a result, the EC ordered the reprinting of these ballots. Fred Tetteh, the Deputy Director of Research at the Electoral Commission, spoke to journalists regarding the number of destroyed ballot papers.
“What we’ve done here was not aimed at benefiting or disadvantaging any political party. You were all present during the process we just carried out. Now, I will walk you through the figures for the materials we burned this afternoon.
“We received a total of 184 Presidential ballot paper bags for the Volta Region, 67 bags for the Ahafo Presidential ballots, 66 bags for the Volta Region parliamentary ballots, and 21 bags for Ahafo’s parliamentary ballots. Political party agents who were with us at the printing house can confirm these figures.”
“In terms of the content, for presidential, the 100 booklets; we had 9,536. Volta Region, 50 booklets; 1,119, 25 booklets; 1,082, 10 booklets; 1,970. For Ahafo Presidential, we came with 3,344 booklets of 100s, 393 booklets of 50s, for 25 booklets we brought 401 and then for 10 booklets we came with 654 booklets. The same figures run for parliamentary because the same number of presidential ballots are the same number for parliamentary. So those are the figures for both presidential and parliamentary.
“All the stakeholders here endorsed the disposal certificate, we are going to run a copy for all of you so you take it to your offices and your political parties”, he stated
The Electoral Commission (EC) recalled ballot papers printed for the Ahafo and Volta regions due to serialisation errors.
Samuel Tettey, the EC’s Deputy Commissioner, announced this during an emergency Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on Friday, November 15, 2024.
Tettey explained that while the overall ballot printing process had gone smoothly, a serialisation issue was identified on some of the ballot papers designated for the two regions.
To address the problem, the EC has reassigned the printing responsibilities. Buck Press, which was initially tasked with printing the Volta region’s ballots, will now handle Ahafo’s, while Acts Commercials, previously assigned to Ahafo, will take over the printing for Volta.
